What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant...
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process w...
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.
The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and se...
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding dange...
Your success and happiness lie in you.